The Complaint of the Exiles: National Strike and More Representation
This is an account of the incident among Nicaraguan exiles in a meeting on July 28, 2019 in Costa Rica from the viewpoint of one of the panelists, Félix Maradiaga,…
“The Alliance should listen to the people” says Doña Francisca, peasant leader
On July 28, 2019 Hagamos Democracia, an Nicaraguan NGO whose legal status was revoked by the Nicaraguan government in December, invited Nicaraguans in exile to a meeting. Nicaraguan exiles who…
Homegrown fascism is what Nicaragua has
This is an important current assessment given the background of the author, his intimate knowledge of Daniel Ortega, and touches on a number of important and sensitive topics: the role…
Professor Gabriel Putoy: “Commissioner Avellán hit me in the forehead with an AK 47”
Monimbó, Masaya has always been a Sandinista stronghold, so it was somewhat surprising when it was one of the neighborhoods that most strongly protested the government´s brutal response to the…
Social Inequality
By any reckoning, any resolution to the current crisis will still leave a very polarized society. In fact current government pronouncements fuel the polarization by continuing to refer to the…
“Sanctions are the only language that Ortega and Murillo understand”
This interview of the Director of Human Rights Watch was done on the release of their report on repression and torture in Nicaragua. It is significant because it came out…
Press Release of the Governmentof National Unity and Reconciliation Tuesday, June 18, 2019
The Nicaraguan Government with this press release states its position that it has fully with the prisoner release commitment it made in the negotiating table with the Civic Alliance Press…
Will Ortega be able to stop the international sanctions?
This article published yesterday on the author´s blog, lays out the importance of the events of the coming days for the immediate future of the country. June 18th is the…
Ortega Regime manipulates figures of political prisoners in order to not free all of them
A key agreement in the recent negotiation is the release of all political prisoners by June 18, 2019. One of the reasons why the Civic Alliance called for a National…
WORK PROGRAM OF GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL RECONCILIATION AND UNITY TO ESTABLISH STABILITY AND PEACE IN NICARAGUA
This was the response of the Foreign Ministry of Nicaragua to the action of the Permanent Council of the OAS yesterday, who approved a resolution calling for the liberation of…